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Midwest Swing: Chad Allen

Today, Chad Allen joins us to talk Byron Buxton, coaching individuals, and hitting the ball!

We also talk about Henry Bonilla and his family’s current struggle, please visit this link to help fundraise for Henry and his family.

 

In Today’s Episode

  • Leaving the Twins system, including Chad’s gratitude to our hometown team [7:00]
  • Torii Hunter and Byron Buxton [15:00]
  • Analyzing coaching styles for different players [23:00]
  • “You can’t think and hit at the same time!” [28:00]

Midwest Swing is a weekly podcast where Host Mike Berardino interviews experts, coaches, and players around the league on the state of the Minnesota Twins, The Major and Minor Leagues, and the latest MLB news.

Mike Berardino (@MikeBerardino) is a Zone Coverage Minnesota Twins Contributing Writer. He has been covering the Twins since 2013 for The St. Paul Pioneer Press and Zone Coverage.

Tom Schreier (@tschreier3) is the proprietor of ZoneCoverage.com and previously wrote about Minnesota sports for Bleacher Report and Yahoo! Sports before joining 105 The Ticket in 2014.

 

 


 

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